Movie producer Jason James and director Cam Labine are getting into character. The creators of Mountain Men, the feature movie that starts filming in Revelstoke on April 5, have grown beards during weeks researching and scouting here.

Including me, that makes three bearded men sitting around a table at the River City Pub, drinking Mt. Begbie Brewing Co. beer – comfortable in our masculine Revelstoke pursuits, just like the main characters in their film – before the plot thickens and things go sideways.

Mountain Men tells the story of two brothers who have taken different paths in life returning home for a wedding. One has rejected his roots. While home they travel into the backcountry to a remote cabin, where things go badly wrong. While evicting a squatter, they burn down the cabin and face trial by wilderness.